2012 – 2013 Projects

Realtime online code editor with collaborative capability. Code Blue will act as a programming help-me tool for those who have “how-to” questions or need help fixing a bug. Written in Share.js, Node.js, and Django.

Past Projects

mEvent is an events aggregator which scans the websites of local venues (like the Canopy Club, the Illini Union, etc) and collects all the events it finds into a single database. This database is then made searchable via the website, making it easy to find out what’s going on around campus.

MonkeyRisk is a browser-based implementation of the classic stategic board game RISK! The game is played in real time with a JavaScript front-end interacting with the PHP/MySQL server-side game engine. Click here to join in the quest for world domination!

During Fall ’07, we built a ‘version 2.0′ of the web-end of Caffeine, just as a fun little project to get the ball rolling and to play around with the Django web framework (and to learn some python!) We then moved on to create an AJAX-ey photo mosaic generator. We cleverly called this Photosaic.

2006-2007 WebPrint

WebPrint was a system which allowed you to find a person’s “footprint” on the Internet. A system was devised to allow a user to enter in a person’s name, and then any and all data that could be found about the person was parsed and displayed. It mostly remained a cool idea; we did manage to get two modules working: one for Myspace, and one for UIUC’s PH.

2005-2006 ChimpOS

ChimpOS was an emulated operating system in a browser. Essentially, we built a filesystem using PHP and a MySQL database, and allowed users to register, and login and see a “desktop”, complete with icons to launch applications, or change settings such as their wallpaper. We completed three different skins: Windows XP, Fluxbox, and OSX (including the dock!). The front-end was all done with javascript to do neat effects (specifically, the OSX dock).